Senior AI Foundations Engineer - Scalable, Responsible ML

Capital One National Association; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 209,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations) to drive advanced AI foundation systems in the IFX team.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products, design and deploy foundation model components, and optimize LLM performance across production systems. This role prioritizes responsible AI, scalable infrastructure, and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
• At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.

Skills

Python programming

Go programming

Scala programming

Java programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations) to drive advanced AI foundation systems in the IFX team.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products, design and deploy foundation model components, and optimize LLM performance across production systems. This role prioritizes responsible AI, scalable infrastructure, and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams.